profitably

profitable | American Dictionary

profitable
adjective
us/ˈprɑf·ɪ·t̬ə·bəl/
resulting in or likely to result in a profit or a benefit:
a profitable business
I try to make profitable use of my time.

profitability

noun[ U ]us/ˌprɑf·ɪ·t̬əˈbɪl·ɪ·t̬i/
He revealed plans to restore the magazine’s profitability.

profitably

adverbus/ˈprɑf·ɪ·t̬ə·bli/
We can operate profitably within that market.

profitable | Business English

profitable
adjective
uk /ˈprɒfɪtəbl/us
COMMERCE, FINANCE
producing a profit:
a profitable business/companyThey are now among the most profitable companies quoted on the New York Stock Exchange.
highly/very profitableThis is a highly profitable business.
a profitable market/product
profitable growth
be profitable for sb to do sthConsumers need to convince farmers that it can be profitable for them to grow organic food.
giving an advantage or useful result:
The meeting had gone well, and he felt it had been a profitable morning.

Examples of profitable

profitable
Local finance is too expensive under structural adjustment to make agricultural marketing profitable.
Evidence was found, however, to suggest that full adopters of the technology had more profitable farms than partial adopters.
Tobacco worked well for farmers, who soon found that it was more profitable if traded outside of the colonial marketing system.
Farming practices that are economically profitable in the short-run usually attract farmers' interest and are therefore more likely to be adopted.
The organic rotation wheat-sweet clover will be more profitable than wheat-fallow in the long term, but will be less profitable than continuous wheat.
The fact that organic fruit costs twice as much as inorganic fruit means greater profits and makes organic banana production a profitable agricultural system.
And lurking in the background is industry promotion of a profitable product.
The key argument on oaths in this commentary is contained in his observation that solemn oaths are both profitable and needful.
The argument was that even academic and quasi-academic institutions should actively seek to market their services and engage in profitable trading with private sector customers.
Cultural capital not only has been conserved but has generated revenue by profitable conversion into social and economic capital.
The combination encouraged efficiency and produced reasonably profitable pastoral farming.
There is mounting evidence that this approach is neither profitable for producers nor good for the environment2.
Initially, most payment programs for land diversion had a fixed payment per land unit, attracting the least profitable lands while maximizing the area enrolled.
As with any investment, the returns must exceed the actors' discount rates and be more profitable than alternative available uses of the resources.
Sharp and his wife also kept a grocery shop for several years, but did not find it profitable.
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